The Latest Breaking News from Nyck de Vries

At the start of the 60-minute session, AlphaTauri's Nyck de Vries set the first-place benchmark at 1m17.918s during the opening laps using the prototype compound construction set to become standard across Pirelli's range from the upcoming British GP, which several other runners sampled early on too.

Verstappen set his headline time halfway through FP1 as the Red Bulls proved to be on the pace straight away, and looked untouchable in a warning shot to his rivals as they hope to end the Milton Keynes squad's monopoly on race wins in 2023.

Verstappen will start ahead of Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen set the pace in Friday practice, leading the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.

After struggling with the ride of his RB19 car over kerbs and bumps in an FP1 session headed by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, Verstappen turned the tables in FP2. 

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was fastest in FP1 but he crashed out of FP2, which was topped by Verstappen.

Red Bull are not famed for their patience with drivers and, having yet to score a point since securing his first full-time F1 drive, Nyck de Vries' place with AlphaTauri is under threat

Red Bull are no strangers to chopping and changing the driver line-ups of their two teams mid-season, and could be set to do so again this year with one racer struggling

Schumacher was axed by Haas at the end of last season and, as every other team had already made their driver decisions, he was left without an F1 race seat for this year